[neact] 2nd update for NEACT May 3

From: Bobbie Lamont <blamont@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "neact@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <neact@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 15:06:31 +0000
Room location for the Regis College Central division meeting is now available: 
College hall, room 202.

And thank you to our NESACS friends for posting to their website! 
http://www.nesacs.org/curr_events_other-sym.html#neactcentral


Chemistry Education: Poetry and Play
At Regis College
Saturdsy, 05/03/2014
Join us for the Central Division meeting at Regis College in Weston, MA.  
Professor  Mala Radhakrishan of Wellesley College will lead participants in a 
writing workshop.  Leslie Bishop, NEACT Central Division chair and Regis 
College professor, will share her experiences introducing elementary students 
to chemistry activities.  Registration opens at 8:30 am  and the program begins 
at 9:00 am.

Location:  College Hall, Room 202


Dr. Mala Radhakrishnan
Humanizing chemistry through poetry, personification, analogy, and language
There's a reason why "chemistry.com" is actually a dating website -- our own 
personal quests for happiness and stability can often serve as useful analogies 
to help understand and explain the behavior of atoms and molecules as they go 
about their business.  In this workshop, we will explore how personification of 
chemical species, poetry, storytelling, and analogy can be useful ways to 
understand rigorous chemical concepts by making the material familiar, 
memorable, and humanized.  Through writing our own narrative verse about 
chemical and physical phenomena, we will also discuss the limitations of 
analogies and other models in understand science.  Finally, I will also read 
poems from my book of humorous, educational poetry, _Atomic Romances, Molecular 
Dances_ and will discuss how I have encouraged students to creatively engage 
with chemistry both through using everyday language and ideas to describe 
complex chemical phenomena and by using discipline-specific chemical language 
to describe everyday phenomena.

Dr. Leslie Bishop
Inspiring Our Future - Science and Math Enrichment at the Regis College 
Children’s Center and the Academy at Regis College
As we know, it is so important that children are exposed to science and math to 
spark interest and curiosity.  It is the hope that their excitement is 
generated as early as possible and sustained as they continue their education.  
Learn how the enrichment team at Regis College is carrying out this quest.  
Many manipulatives used in this program can easily be adapted for the high 
school and college chemistry classrooms.  Attendees will have the opportunity 
to explore and play with many of them.  We are all still kids at heart!

If planning to attend, please RSVP to Leslie Bishop 
(leslie.bishop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) by April 26, 2014
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